November 06, 2024
In Bishkek, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's wife Emine Erdoğan, accompanied by Aygül Caparova, wife of Kyrgyz President Sadyr Caparov, visited the Turkish Maarif Foundation's (TMF) educational complex, which provides education to 1,453 students of all age groups.
Accompanying President Erdoğan, who is in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, for official visits, Emine Erdoğan and Aygül Caparova visited the TMF Education Complex in Bishkek. Emine Erdoğan and Aygül Caparova met with students here.
Kyrgyz students greeted Emine Erdoğan, to whom they presented flowers, saying “Hello, welcome” in Turkish.
Kyrgyz Deputy Minister of Education Rasul Avazbekuulu, TMF President Prof. Dr. Birol Akgün and TMF Kyrgyzstan Representative Hüsnü Bircan also accompanied the visit.
After visiting thematic sections such as the Computer and Robotic Coding Workshop and the English room, Emine Erdoğan and Aygül Caparova visited the kindergarten classrooms. The students sang songs for Emine Erdoğan, who participated in the fall-themed lessons of the preschool students.
Taking a close interest in the work of the students, Emine Erdoğan and Aygül Caparova examined the objects and weaving products made with felt, one of the traditional arts of Kyrgyzstan, and the paintings made with charcoal on canvases.
The spouses of the leaders were informed about the education and training activities carried out in the complex and were introduced to the library, which includes books written in different languages.
Emine Erdoğan paid special attention to the Turkish corner where Turkish language learning takes place and was informed about the activities implemented in the complex to teach Turkish.
STUDENTS PRESENTED THEIR PROJECTS THAT WON DEGREES AT TECHNOFEST IN TURKISH
Kyrgyz students made presentations in Turkish to the spouses of the leaders about the projects they won in the categories of Biotechnology Innovation Competition and Technologies in Education Competition at TEKNOFEST in Türkiye.
The Kyrgyz students presented a section from the Manas Epic and also performed folk dances accompanied by traditional music.
The last piece of the performance was a version of Âşık Veysel's folk song “Uzun İnce Bir Yoldayım”, which was interpreted with the Kyrgyz traditional instrument “Kıl Kıyak”.
At the end of the program, Kyrgyz students waved Emine Erdoğan off with applause.
“OUR CHILDREN REVIVED THE TRACES OF FRIENDSHIP AND BROTHERHOOD IN OUR EYES”
After the program, Emine Erdoğan made the following statements on her social media account X: “We visited Turkish Maarif Foundation Education Complex in Bishkek with Aygül Caparova, the esteemed wife of the President of Kyrgyzstan. We toured the classrooms and received information about the quadilingual education provided in all fields, especially science, technology, art and culture. This education center opens a door for our Kyrgyz children to be empowered with knowledge and realize their dreams. Our common wish is that the generations who grow up with education and are molded with values will be full of light that will benefit both their own countries and the Turkic world. Our children, who sang traditional Kyrgyz melodies with all their sincerity, revived the traces of friendship and brotherhood in our eyes. On the occasion of this special visit, I was also pleased to meet our students who proudly represented their country at TEKNOFEST with their projects. I wish them continued success.”
